Longtime member, not active. Had a basenji with the same diagnosis back in 2004. He took a tremendous amount of bicarb each day, his Fanconi was being well managed, but he started having seizures at night. Our vet gave us something to stop the seizure that we'd administer rectally. We kept track of the number of seizures and they started becoming more frequent, to about twice a week, if I recall. The final seizure he had he went temporarily blind and howled and howled and we knew that was it was time. I just sat on the floor with him and cried. A couple months later we looked at photos we had taken of him right before and he looked very, very tired. Very much the hardest thing we had ever done was to let him go across the Bridge, but after looking at those photos, we had done the right thing. Our vet had told us that it was possible he would have a seizure and not come out of it, and we certainly didn't want that.
Fanconi Test Results
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I finally got Nemo's results back by email.
PROBABLY CLEAR/NORMAL FOR FANCONI SYNDROME
Yeah! That's over now.
Based on the email, it looks like they may have renamed the "indeterminate" result with "equivocal". Here is the description of the result from the email:
"An EQUIVOCAL test result indicates that your basenji’s DNA contained features found in both “normal” and “carrier” Basenjis. So far about 10% of the tested basenjis have given us an EQUIVOCAL test result. At present we cannot predict whether these Basenjis are carriers or normal; however, it is unlikely that they will develop Fanconi syndrome. The safest strategy would be to treat them as “carriers” and only breed them to dogs that test CLEAR/NORMAL FOR FANCONI SYNDROME."
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That is great news for Nemo!!!! Now you have no worries about Fanconi….
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That is wonderful news!
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Congratulations! That is very good news.
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Wonderful news, congratulations!
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I finally got Nemo's results back by email.
PROBABLY CLEAR/NORMAL FOR FANCONI SYNDROME
Yeah! That's over now.
Based on the email, it looks like they may have renamed the "indeterminate" result with "equivocal". Here is the description of the result from the email:
Congrats on the results.. that is EXCELLENT.
And yes they have been calling Indeterminate Equivocal for quite some time now. I believe indeterminate is the lay speak for equivocal, as that is what Zaire and her mom both test as.
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Congrats!!!
